By Shawn Vestal, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.:yahoo – excerpt
May 29—One key dynamic of urban homelessness is laid bare in a new book by a pair of Seattle researchers.
When they compared major cities across the country, they found that homelessness was not strongly associated with high levels of poverty in a community.
What it was very strongly correlated with was high levels of wealth.
The authors of this new book, “Homelessness is a Housing Problem,” found that many cities with very high levels of poverty — from Detroit to Dallas to Miami to Philadelphia — have relatively low rates of homelessness…(more)